Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities and Our Planet – One Bite at a Time

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This is a great, detailed indictment of sugar, junk food, Big Ag and Big Food. If anyone you know harbors any illusions about 1. the putrid, pesticide-soaked US diet; or 2. corruption and collusion between Big Ag, government and science, tell them to read this book. However, the subtitle belies the book's fundamental flaw: you can't save the planet one bite at a time. Before launching POLITICO’s food policy coverage in 2013, Helena was the Washington correspondent for Food Safety News where she covered deadly foodborne illness outbreaks and the run-up to Congress passing the most significant update to food safety law in a century.

At current usage levels we have maybe 60 years of good crops left before the soils around the world go dead. The book literally is an eye opener for you, if you haven't realised how this economically driven world has got us to the point where we are facing different global problems related to our personal health as human and global crisises as a society. This book has shown me that fixings your diet to look good, stay healthier, feel better are far less important than to do it for saving the world. The claim that India has the largest rate of diabetes in the world, based on the expansion of American fast food chains in the country (notably: Yum! brands). How is this claim made? By percentage of diabetics? Sheer number, making one of the more populous countries in the world an obvious target? And if fast food is considered a luxury good in India, as the author claims, how does such a country with millions outside the middle class then account for the high rate of diabetes? I don’t frequent fast food for health reasons, but I found the conclusion to be overreaching. Indian food in some regions has a lot of sugar (whether jaggery, honey, or white sugar), which can raise one’s blood sugar. The amount of exercise the average Indian engages in has gone down since cars became more readily available. Yes, processed foods have also contributed to this, but not singularly. I was already familiar with the fact that our agriculture strategies were not ideal and that they were a large contributor to the emissions, but at the same time I'm aware that globally people are looking for innovations to improve that, so I didn't perceive it in such a dramatic way.Trillion dollars has been wasted from our economy on chronic illnesses over the last 35 years, and 11 million people die yearly from lifestyle diseases, most of which can be traced to bad diets. Like I said, it’s a sobering, challenging, confronting read. It’s also, ultimately, a hopeful read as Mark gives us some compelling Ideas on how we can go about SOLVING the crises along with a cast of heroic characters who are doing the hard work to serve us and change the world.

Food is our most powerful tool to reverse the global epidemic of chronic disease, heal the environment, reform politics, and revive economies. What we eat has tremendous implications not just for our waistlines, but also for the planet, society, and the global economy. What we do to our bodies, we do to the planet; and what we do to the planet, we do to our bodies.

The books won't help you much with what you should eat. Rather it focuses on what you should not eat. If you are looking something kind of typical diet book then this not the thing you should read. You can read (WTF should I eat?) By the same author.

In Food Fix, #1 bestselling author Mark Hyman explains how our food and agriculture policies are corrupted by money and lobbies that drive our biggest global crises: the spread of obesity and food-related chronic disease, climate change, poverty, violence, educational achievement gaps, and more.Avoid sugar (especially added sugars), pesticides, hormones, GMO's and bad oils like corn, canola, and soybean Dr. Hyman is a practicing family physician, an eleven-time New York Times bestselling author, and an internationally recognized leader, speaker, educator, and advocate in his field. He is the Director of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine. He is also the founder and medical director of The UltraWellness Center, chairman of the board of the Institute for Functional Medicine, a medical editor of The Huffington Post, and was a regular medical contributor on many television shows including CBS This Morning, Today Show, CNN, and The View, Katie, and The Dr. Oz Show.